It’s Saturday morning and the first thing that popped into my head for things I need to do is write a new post. More like my first post for the year 2018. It’s late to say Happy New Year to you all but as the saying goes, better late then never. Speaking of which it’s about time I update you on what’s happening in my life right now. Continue reading “Happy Bilated New Year!”→

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I hope each and every one of you from around the world, are enjoying your Christmases with friends, family, and all your loved ones this year. Have a safe and happy holiday season and I will see you all again in the New Year! Happy reading!

Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are spending their winter vacation in Europe to get away for the semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets as the mood in the Holmes Sussex estate is intense. On top of that, Watson and Holmes might be more then just friends, but Charlotte’s past remains a wall between them.

Charlotte’s uncle Leander suddenly goes missing disturbing the peace, and with clues that he was involved in a case dealing with an art heist in Europe, Charlotte and Jamie are off again. This time to Berlin where they meet August Moriarty (presumed dead by most people), and his entire family accused for ripping off famous paintings for years. But as they follow the underground art scene in Berlin and the art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson realize this case is bigger than they can handle and much more complicated.Continue reading “Review: The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro”→

For centuries Nomeolvides women have taken care of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from all over the world. But there’s a dark secret, if they fall in love their lovers vanish. But then to their surprise a boy suddenly appears in the gardens. The boy is a mystery to Estralla, the Nomeolvides girl who found him and introduced to her family. But she suddenly learns that he doesn’t even know who he is or where he came from. As Estralla tries to help Fel piece together his past, La Pradera leads the pair to deeper, darker secrets that are dangerous and magical.

Sonia and Tara are sisters struggling to fit in the life of America. Moved into Queens from London, they both find life very different from home. Girls in New York don’t hold hands or wear matching outfits to high school, and it doesn’t help that they are surrounded by nosy aunties at their apartment building. But then tragedy strikes when Sonia falls in love with a boy their mother doesn’t approve and cutting a deep wound in the Das family. This forbidden love last decades, and each Das woman decides which Bengali traditions to uphold and to leave behind, but there are some scars that take generations to heal.

At sixteen, Mina’s mother died and her vicious magician father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. Her heart has never beat at all since then. When she moves into Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, she forms a plan: win the king’s heart, become queen, and finally know love.

At fifteen, Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers that a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen’s image, at her father’s order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do and who to be, to win back the only mother she’s ever known.

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology and here, he stays true to the myths on envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin the All-Father, wise, daring and father to Thor, incredibly strong but not the wisest of gods. Loki, son of the giant and blood brother to Odin and a trickster and manipulator.

Gaiman fashions these stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the legend of the nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman to steal it back. But can he succeed without his beard and immense appetite to give him away? More poignant is the tale of Kvasir in which his blood is turned into mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.

Through Gaiman’s witty prose emerge these gods with their fierce competitive natures and their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making theses ancient myths breathe life again.

My Review:

Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors sitting close to Victoria Schwab. Never have I ever been disappointed by any of his books, well there are some of his short stories that didn’t appeal to me but his novels did. So when Neil Gaiman comes out with a new book based on mythology, I immediately buy it. As a fan of Norse mythology (myself included) it didn’t surprise me that he decided to come out with this collection; he did write American Gods (now turned into a TV series) and is still one of the most weird and bizarre story I’ve read.Continue reading “Review: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman”→